How to Be Awesome at Your Job20 Nov 2025

1112: How to Beat Digital Exhaustion and Reclaim Your Energy with Paul Leonardi

Paul Leonardi reveals how notifications, multitasking, and endless tools quietly burn us out–and how you can reset your energy.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The two hidden forces behind your digital exhaustion

2) Simple ways to reduce attention-switching

3) How to reclaim your energy from your devices

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— ABOUT PAUL —

Paul Leonardi, PhD, is the award-winning Duca Family Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a frequent consultant and speaker to a wide range of tech and non-tech companies like Google, Microsoft, YouTube, GM, McKinsey, and Fidelity, helping them to take advantage of new technologies while defeating digital exhaustion. He is a contributor to the Harvard Business Review and coauthor of The Digital Mindset.

• Book: Digital Exhaustion: Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life

• LinkedIn: Paul Leonardi

• Faculty Profile: Paul Leonardi

• Website: PaulLeonardi.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “When Choice is Demotivating: Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing?” by Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper

• Book: At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

• Book: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

• Past episode: 832: How to Restore Yourself from Burnout with Dr. Christina Maslach

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